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When people ask me who my favorite filmmakers are, one of the first names that pop into my twisted brain meats is Tim Burton, the mad genius behind such timeless and stylish films as Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Batman, Ed Wood, Dark Shadows, and one of my personal favorites, Big Fish. From the start of his career as a director of unique short films, it was apparent Burton would go on to create great things. When Pee-wee’s Big Adventure “Tequila” danced its way onto the silver screen, it was clear that a genie had escaped the Hollywood bottle. Today, we’re getting a first look at Tara Wood’s four-part docuseries about the life and beloved work of Tim Burton.

Wood’s Tim Burton docuseries marks a special occasion. It is the first exploration of Burton’s storied career with Burton’s blessing. The presentation includes exclusive interviews,...

Chloë Grace Moretz has signed on to star in The Edge of Normal, the English-language debut of Piggy director Carlota Pereda.

Based on Carla Norton‘s 2013 novel of the same name, the serial killer thriller was written by Matt Venne with revisions by Lori Evans Taylor (Final Destination: Bloodlines).

Reeve LeClaire (Moretz) is still haunted from when she was held captive as a teenager by a sadistic man, but when her psychiatrist asks her to mentor a newly rescued survivor, she’s pulled into a chilling game of cat-and-mouse — one that threatens to drag her back into the nightmare she barely escaped.

Filming will begin this Spring with XYZ Films producing and financing with funding from Ipr.Vc.

Vanishing Angle will produce alongside Andrew Deane and Ava Jamshidi for Industry Entertainment.

No stranger to horror, Moretz’s genre credits include Carrie, The Amityville Horror, Let Me In, Suspiria, and Dark Shadows.

Fans have finally got to see Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice after a wait of 36 years. Michael Keaton returned as the chaotic bio-exorcist with Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara.

In the sequel, Lydia Deetz is now a mother with her own paranormal talk show, and she has to deal with the ghost who has returned.

Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures

At the same time, Johnny Depp, who had worked with Burton, was rumored to return to acting. This sequel had fans in high spirits because after a legal battle, Depp was coming back to work, and Burton was also sort of reviving his career. The expectations were high that both would work together in this sequel.

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp’s gothic legacy fueled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice rumors Johnny Depp in Dark Shadows | Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures

Tim Burton has worked with Johnny Depp on eight films,...

Do not underestimate the power “Dark Shadows” holds over an entire generation.

In addition to paving the way for everything from Tim Burton’s career to NBC’s “Passions,” the long-running supernatural soap opera led to Todd McIntosh’s entire career in makeup — and even delayed his retirement.

”At the time I decided to retire, another version of ‘Dark Shadows’ was being floated around,” McIntosh told IndieWire. “They were shopping it around, and as far as I know, they still are. So I actually held off retiring a little bit because I wanted to do that.”

McIntosh eventually did retire, with just the ill-fated 2004 reboot pilot under his belt when it came to the ghostly doings of Barnabas, Angelique, and the Collins clan. But that doesn’t mean the two-time Emmy Award winner missed out on vampires entirely.

In addition to “Dracula: Dead and Loving It” and “Mockingbird Lane,” McIntosh...

Horror streaming platform Nyx TV UK has unveiled a packed February 2025 lineup, promising a thrilling blend of psychological thrillers, cult classics, and supernatural chills. Leading the charge is the Channel premiere of Big Bad Wolves, the provocative Israeli psychological thriller from directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado. Praised for its blend of dark comedy and harrowing drama, the film will stream on Friday, February 21, at 9pm.

Often hailed as one of the most thought-provoking psychological horror films of the past decade, Big Bad Wolves has earned critical acclaim worldwide. Its intense exploration of morality and revenge is sure to captivate audiences as the headline feature for this month’s offerings.

Nyx TV UK’s February slate also includes ten additional Channel premieres, covering a range of genres and eras to satisfy horror fans of all kinds. Among the highlights is a tribute to the “Godfather of Gore,” Herschell Gordon Lewis,...

Earlier this month, we published an extensive profile of Eric Carmen that delved into the brilliant music and complicated private life of the pop visionary, who died in March 2024. It touched upon Carmen’s childhood in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, the rise of his power-pop group the Raspberries, their collapse just two years after scoring a massive hit with “Go All the Way,” the creation of his solo classic “All by Myself,” and his decision to largely abandon his career in the Nineties.

The final two decades of Carmen...

Back in 2016, Tim Burton collaborated with a young actor on Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, and though the actor would have been a perfect Johnny Depp replacement, the pair have not worked together again. Since the mid-1980s, Burton has proved himself to be a groundbreaking director, showcasing his unique style and strangely heartfelt stories. From major franchises to beloved stop-motion movies, Burton's projects are the kind that are easily recognizable and highly anticipated. However, there is one element of Burton's career that he has struggled to maintain in recent years.

Burton has become known for a number of different things, but one notable aspect of his career has been Burton's propensity to work with the same actors over and over again. The two most obvious examples of this are Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Over the years, Depp has starred in eight Burton movies, while Carter has appeared in seven.

Gwen Van Dam, a prolific character actress who appeared in TV and film, has died. She was 96.

Van Dam’s death was confirmed by her son, Dirk Smillie, who told our sister site The Hollywood Reporter that she died in her West Los Angeles home on Dec. 19, after a recurrence of cancer.

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Starting off her decades-long career in the 1950s, Van...

Though Tim Burton has had a long career and his most successful film made a killing at the box office, it hasn't aged nearly as well as a 1999 made-for-tv movie that cost a fraction of Burton's budget. Tim Burton's movies have had wild swings in terms of success, with his heyday undoubtedly coming in the 1980s and early '90s, with classics like Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas (though Burton didn't direct), and Batman Returns. Since then, his career has been more sporadic, with highs like 2003's Big Fish, but also some real lows, like 2012's Dark Shadows, with the box office and critical reviews to match.

Recently, Burton has experienced a little bit of a career resurgence, thanks to trying something new while also returning to an old friend. The sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was a box office success, generating largely positive reviews and racking up $451 million on a budget of $100 million.

Actor Chad Duell recently announced he would be leaving General Hospital. While much information has been teased about his departure, one things fans don’t know just yet is how the character will be written off. At this time, fans are wondering just how and why Michael will be leaving Port Charles.

There Are No Immediate Plans To Recast The Character

As an actor, Duell got his start in a few Disney Channel shows. In 2010, however, he would join General Hospital as Michael Corinthos, having taken on the role from Drew Garrett.

The role won Duell a Daytime Emmy Award in 2015. However, in 2024, he announced his departure from the series after around 14 years.

Chad Duell – YouTube

As noted by Soaps, at this time, fans already know a bit about Duell’s departure already. As the publication noted, Duell’s appearances on the soap will continue well into 2025.

Actor Robert Adamson...

Johnny Depp may be cancelled in the eyes of some fans, but he’s certainly not in the eyes of pal and longtime collaborator, director Tim Burton.

The duo have worked together on such projects as ‘Edward Scissorhands,’ ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,’ and there’s possibly still a lot more in store for them to do.

Tim Burton Knows There’ll Be Another Project That Will Likely Being Him and Johnny Depp Together

The worlds of Burton and Depp are ones that have collided together multiple times and seem likely to keep doing so in the years to come.

Fresh off from filming teen goth horror ‘Wednesday,’ the iconic director sat down with IndieWire at the Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday, Nov. 30 to talk about his projects.

During the interview, talks turned towards Depp, who has just come off from his second directorial project,...

With just one movie, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp felt destined to work together, bringing a unique presence of gothic oddity to the screen. But it obviously wouldn’t just be Edward Scissorhands that they collaborated on. No, they would have a total of eight big screen pairings. But the most recent was 2012’s Dark Shadows, with Burton having done five movies without Depp since. So what gives? Will we ever see another Tim Burton / Johnny Depp movie?

Tim Burton is confident that there will be a place for Johnny Depp in a future film of his, telling IndieWire, “Well, I’m sure there will be [another collaboration].” But Burton was careful to note that his reason for not working with an actor is never personal. “I never feel like, oh, I’m going to use this and that actor. It usually has to be based on the project I’m working on.

Well, someone finally cornered Tim Burton into talking about Johnny Depp. Asked at the Marrakech International Film Festival whether there'd be another Burton/Depp collaboration in the future, the filmmaker replied, "Well, I’m sure there will be" (per IndieWire). The duo have a longstanding personal and professional relationship, working...

Tim Burton may have reawakened the Ghost With the Most in the recently released sequel to his 1988 comedy-horror film “Beetlejuice,” but that didn’t seem to convince the filmmaker to revisit some of his other classics.

During a Q&a at the Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday (via IndieWire), Burton dismissed the possibility of developing a sequel to 1990’s “Edward Scissorhands,” which starred Johnny Depp as the titular role.

“There are certain films I don’t want to make a sequel to,” Burton said. “I didn’t want to make a sequel to that because it felt like a one-off thing. I didn’t want to have a sequel for ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ because it also felt like a one-off thing. Certain things are best left on their own, and that, for me, is one of them.”

Although Burton hasn’t directed a film involving Depp since 2012’s “Dark Shadows,...

Tim Burton has addressed the prospect of reuniting with his frequent muse Johnny Depp in a new movie. The iconic director, whose debut feature was 1985's Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, has used the Pirates of the Caribbean star in many of his productions, generally playing exaggerated characters that require a great deal of makeup. The eight-movie roster of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton collaborations includes 1990's Edward Scissorhands, 2010's Alice in Wonderland, 2005's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 1994's Ed Wood, and 2007's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, though Burton has not directed Depp since 2012's Dark Shadows.

Tim Burton recently spoke with IndieWire on the red carpet at the Marrakech International Film Festival. When discussing the prospect of working with Depp again, he stated that he does not start a project with the intention of working with any particular actor, instead using actors to fit the needs of the story.

Director Tim Burton may be tight-lipped on his next project, a remake of “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,” but during a red carpet interview at the Marrakech International Film Festival, he was forthcoming about why.

“One thing I learned very early on is until I’m actually on a set doing something, I don’t know if I’m doing it,” he told IndieWire. “I never like to talk about things too much. I’ve worked on so many projects, sometimes they happen, sometimes they don’t happen, so I don’t want to jinx anything. I mean, I was doing ‘Superman’ once. There was another project that I worked for a year on, and it didn’t happen. It’s quite traumatic, it’s quite emotional.”

Inspired by his childhood love of monster movies and horror films, Burton is set to direct “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman...

Tim Burton has had a great career recovery with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, however, his remake of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman puts it in danger due to the original movie’s low Rotten Tomatoes score. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman was originally released in 1958 and followed the story of an heiress called Nancy who, after encountering an alien being, rampages through her town as a giant figure, aiming to get revenge on her cheating husband. 1958’s Attack of the 50 Foot Woman has shockingly low ratings, with just 21% on Rotten Tomatoes, because of its cheesy, low-budget action.

Although Tim Burton’s movies have become famous over the years for their gothic themes, the director’s output has been somewhat disappointing in the last decade. However, 2024’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice garnered good reviews and the cult classic movie sequel was a box office success, marking a significant career recovery for Burton.

The success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has set up one major problem for Tim Burton's next movie, as it's unlikely that Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman will meet the level of success his $450 million sequel has garnered. Not only has the long-awaited sequel almost tripled its budget, but Beetlejuice 2 has hit several box office milestones during its time in theaters. The reception to Burton's work has been inconsistent for over a decade, with films like Dark Shadows and Dumbo performing poorly among critics. However, Beetlejuice 2 has changed this, and his remake of the 66-year-old sci-fi now faces high expectations.

Attack of the Fifty Foot Women must buck Burton's trend of disappointing remakes if his comeback after Beetlejuice 2 is to be successful. With that in mind, Burton's enthusiasm for sci-fi is key to Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman's remake, but it highlights the uphill battle...

After the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burtons next movie will see the visionary director return to trickier terrain. Tim Burtons career has seen the director fall in and out of favor with critics, but 2024s belated Beetlejuice sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was his biggest hit in a long time. As well as earning over $450 million at the box office, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice turned around a critical slump that began for Burton back in 2010. The directors live-action re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland failed to win over reviewers despite earning a billion at the box office, starting a string of failures.

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Tim Burton's classic horror comedy Beetlejuice got a long-awaited sequel in 2024, but will the ghost with the most return in Beetlejuice 3?

In the years that followed, Miss Peregrine's Home for Unusual Children, Dark Shadows, Big Eyes, and Dumbo all failed to...

Although Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was a huge box office hit, this ironically proves just how unlikely it is for director Tim Burton to make another $1 billion movie. By Beetlejuice Beetlejuice's ending, it was clear that the old Tim Burton was back. The unique fusion of Gothic horror elements and zany cartoon humor that had animated the director's best movies returned in the belated sequel, which could stand alongside Sleepy Hollow, Batman Returns, Big Fish, or the original Beetlejuice as one of his best. Despite Beetlejuice Beetlejuices plot holes, the movie brought back Burtons sense of fun.

Related Beetlejuice 2 Cast & Returning Character Guide

Several iconic actors from the original are returning for Beetlejuice 2, and they'll be joined in the sequel by exciting new additions to the cast.

Audiences evidently agreed as Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the third highest-grossing movie of Burtons entire career. This box office success makes Beetlejuice 3 much more likely,...

There’s a buzz around a possible split between star Jessica Simpson and ex-NFL player Eric Johnson. As per TMZ, two sources close to Simpson note L.A. divorce lawyers have been contacted to talk about her marital situation over the past two months.

The sources have told TMZ that an individual close to Jessica contacted a Los Angeles divorce attorney in late March, explaining Simpson wasn’t happy with her marriage and wanted to schedule a meeting with them and the singer. Speculation about whether the meeting took place still remains.

Jessica Simpson’s Cryptic Social Media Post

As of this writing, TMZ noted that Simpson did not personally contact a divorce lawyer; however, the outlet did state that a second person on Jessica’s team reached out to another L.A. divorce attorney to talk about related matters. With that being said, nothing further has been done.

Star Trek Origins is a go, and it'll tell the story of the earliest days of the franchise. It'll focus on the developing relations between humans and aliens; most likely focusing on the developing dynamic between humans and Vulcans. It sounds like it may be akin to the old sci-fi film/show Alien Nation in its presentation.

Funny enough, the show version of Alien Nation starred Gary Graham, who would feature on Star Trek: Enterprise as Solar.

With the film now officially in development, who are the people behind the project? Well, the director of the franchise is Toby Haynes, while long-time producer and writer Seth Grahame-Smith will write the story. A story that some fans are nervous about seeing. Yet, should they be?

What have Haynes and Grahame-Smith done and should that give fans pause or excitement about the project?

Grahame-Smith seems to be the more accomplished of the...

Actress Eva Green poses for Chapter II of the Roger Vivier “Express” campaign, in a new short film, directed by Andrea Danese and Nicolangelo Gelormini, for the fashion brand credited with handbags and the creation of the modern day ‘stiletto’ heel, declaring “…to wear dreams on one’s feet is to begin to give a reality to one’s dreams…” :

About her ongoing film career, Green said "...there are simply not enough good roles for women, and for the last 20 years it has been so male-dominated and continues to be so."

The French actress and model started her career in theater before making her film debut in 2003 in Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial "The Dreamers".

She achieved international recognition when she appeared in Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005) and portrayed 'Vesper Lynd' in the 'James Bond' film "Casino Royale" (2006).

In 2006, Green was awarded the 'BAFTA' Rising Star Award.

Two days after announcing he’s reuniting with Daisy Ridley for the tactical action-thriller Dedication, Martin Campbell, Lionsgate is proud to present a poster and trailer for Dirty Angels, an intense action thriller starring Eva Green as the leader of an elite team of soldiers tasked with rescuing a group of women from the clutches of Isis. Campbell directs from a script by Alissa Sullivan and Jonas McCord, with Moshe Diamant, Yariv Lerner, and Robert Van Norton producing.

“From Martin Campbell, director of Casino Royale, comes this tense action-thriller,” reads Lionsgate’s official synopsis for Dirty Angels. “When a group of schoolgirls is taken hostage in Afghanistan, an American soldier named Jake (Eva Green) joins a unit of all-women commandos to liberate them. The plan: Gain the trust of the terrorists by posing as members of a relief organization. But double-crosses, tragedies, and the ghosts of Jake’s past complicate...

The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild said Thursday that Buffy the Vampire Slayer make-up artist Todd McIntosh and Terminator hair stylist Peter Tothpal will be honored with lifetime achievement awards at the 2025 Muahs Awards.

The honors will be bestowed at the ceremony set for February 15 at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel.

McIntosh, who won Outstanding Makeup Emmys for Buffy and later Pushing Daisies among his 12 overall nominations, has a list of credits that also includes the films Memoirs of a Geisha, Venom, The Brady Bunch Movie and The Clan of the Cave Bear, and series including Dark Shadows, Star Trek: Enterprise and Legion in a career in its sixth decade.

Tothpal created looks for all three of James Cameron’s Terminator movies, and his MCU credits include both Avengers movies, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Iron Man 3, along with Cameron’s True Lies, Eraser and Another 48 Hrs.

Lydia Deetzs career in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice follows her fame as the host of the fictional paranormal talk show Ghost House, which is a meta nod to a big change that Tim Burton made to the 1988 original movie. The returning characters in Beetlejuice 2 humorously fulfill the trajectories set out by the end of the original film, with Delia becoming a famous artist, Charles still being an avid bird watcher (though the hobby indirectly kills him), Betelgeuse taking over clerical work in the afterlife, and Lydia rising to fame by turning her ghost-seeing gift into a TV show.

While Lydia films her final episode in Beetlejuice 2s ending, Ghost Houses conclusion is seemingly a meta nod to Burtons own career trajectory. Burton has frequently noted his personal connection to Lydias character, and explained her story as addressing the idea that people sometimes lose themselves and sell out as they grow older.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice continues to invite new interpretations, the latest one being that the horror movie has all the elements of a Hugh Grant romantic comedy. Tim Burton is no stranger to love stories, having created Corpse Bride, Edward Scissorhands, and Dark Shadows. Although the romance in the Sleepy Hollow director's movies can be said to be twisted as it usually involves a pairing between the living and the dead real love can often be just as twisted. Beetlejuice 2's characters are all involved in one or several romantic pairings, with some taking more center focus than others.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuices reviews praise the chemistry between the characters and the storys focus on their emotional connections. The short romance between Astrid and the killer ghost, Jeremy, was the latest addition to Beetlejuice's couples, hinting that no pairing will ever beat the Maitland's perfect chemistry and relationship. However, as Beetlejuice 2's ending reaffirms,...

Todd McIntosh is a veteran make-up artist of the entertainment industry who has worked on classic horror films of the 80’s like April Fool’s Day and supernatural TV favorites like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, among many more. PopGeeks had the opportunity to discuss some of the highlights of his 40+ year film and TV career and even get some make-up effects tips. You can view the video version of the conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_NNb2gVdIE Adam Pope: How did you get fascinated with movie make-up and decide to pursue that as a career? Todd McIntosh: Well, that goes back a long way. When I was about seven years old, there was a daytime soap opera called Dark Shadows and I was absolutely brain fried by all the witches and the werewolves and vampires. Of course, the vampire was the lead. But not only that,...

Prompted by the massive success of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, ABC released dozens of thrillers and horror movies under their Movie of the Week banner between 1969 and 1975. Starting in 1973, the network branched out into late-night programming intended to compete with talk show king Johnny Carson over on NBC, and the five feature-length telefilms collected as The Classic Ghosts by Kino Cult originally aired in that slot.

These telefilms were shot live on two-inch tape in a manner akin to daytime dramas, which does lead to the occasional flubbed line of dialogue. Furthering the comparison, two of the movies were directed by Lela Swift, who helmed over half of Dark Shadows’s approximately 1,200 episodes. Gloria Monty, who directed two others, went on to radically reshape the floundering soap General Hospital in the late ’70s. It’s notable that the creative team behind the telefilms were mostly women. Besides directors Swift and Monty,...

You can have all of the AI you want, but no matter how many prompts you give it, can it ever truly replicate what the human mind can create? Maybe in some cases, but let’s face it, only Tim Burton can come up with a Tim Burton idea. This is not a guy that relies on what he finds on the web — in fact, it petrifies him.

Speaking with BBC, Tim Burton admitted, “Anybody who knows me knows I’m a bit of a technophobe. But I look at the internet, I found that I got quite depressed. It scared me because I started to go down a dark hole. So I try to avoid it, because it doesn’t make me feel good…I get depressed very quickly, maybe more quickly than other people. But it doesn’t take me much to start to click and start to short circuit.

With The Last Voyage of the Demeter now on home video, Dracula is once again on everyone’s mind. In it, Javier Botet plays a horrific version of the count that’s far removed from the recent, classic-style version played by Nicolas Cage in Renfield. How will he stack up against some of the best versions of the fanged Count? First, we must come up with our list of the Best Dracula Actors!

C​hristian Camargo – Penny Dreadful (2016)

W​hile Universal was trying to figure out how to create their Dark Universe, over on Showtime, Penny Dreadful was already doing a fantastic job beating them to the punch. The series pulled together literary versions of Frankenstein’s monster, the wolfman, Dorian Gray, and eventually Dracula himself. Christian Camargo played Dr. Alexander Sweet in Season Three, who begins to seduce Eva Green’s Vanessa Ives. It is revealed later that this doctor is,...

Haunted houses have always been a staple of horror, and TV has delivered some of the creepiest ones you’ll ever see.

From eerie mansions with dark secrets to ghost-filled homes that trap anyone who enters, these haunted houses will make your skin crawl.

Whether they’re filled with malevolent spirits, supernatural forces, or just the unsettling unknown, these TV haunts take terror to a whole new level.

(Steve Dietl/Netflix)

So, grab a flashlight, lock your doors, and get ready to explore the creepiest haunted houses ever seen on TV.

The Three Sisters House — Knots Landing Season 3 Episode 10, “The Three Sisters” (YouTube Screenshot)

In this soap opera’s twist on the haunted house trope, Karen Mackenzie gets more than she bargained for when she becomes obsessed with an old house haunted by three grief-stricken sisters.

What starts as simple curiosity turns into a nightmarish experience as Karen and her...

It’s that time of year again, when it’s fun to give a scare, or even get a scare. Many TV programs offer up a special Halloween episode, some with a light tone and others adding a little mystery, but some TV shows are spooky year round.

People have always been fascinated with the unknown, and “The Twilight Zone” was one of the first series to successfully offer up episode after episode of bizarre stories. In the 1960s, sitcoms like “Bewitched,” “The Addams Family” and “The Munsters” offered a comic take on movie monsters and the occult, while also giving lessons on acceptance. In the 1990s, “The X-Files” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” became huge hits, developing cult followings and leading to the popularity of series featuring supernatural forces. Today, shows like “Stranger Things,” “The Walking Dead” and “Supernatural” have loyal viewers who eagerly await the next adventures of the heroes,...

John Lasell, a character actor known for his television portrayals in Perry Mason (1957), The Twilight Zone (1959) and Dark Shadows (1966), has died in Los Angeles at the age of 95.

The news was confirmed by an obituary notice, which listed the death date as Oct. 4.

His last screen credit dates back to 1985, with the Emmy-nominated TV miniseries A Death in California, opposite Cheryl Ladd and Sam Elliott. He appeared in a handful of episodes in the aforementioned television classic Perry Mason (three in total), as well as one guest spot on The Twilight Zone. His most regular appearance was on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, where he portrayed vampire hunter Dr. Peter Guthrie across 25 episodes.

Other notable TV appearances include Dallas, Falcon Crest, Lassie, Mannix, The Streets of San Francisco, The Mod Squad, Mission: Impossible (in 1972) and Gunsmoke. He was also in two episodes of Wagon Train and four episodes of the Emmy-winning show The Fugitive.

John Lasell, a character actor known for roles on Dark Shadows and The Twilight Zone, has died. He was 95.

Lasell, of Los Angeles, died Oct. 4, according to a family notice.

Lasell appeared regularly on the 1960s camp horror soap Dark Shadows. He played Dr. Peter Guthrie, a vampire hunter. Jonathan Frid played vampire Barnabus Collins in the show that over the course of its four-year run developed a cult teenage following.

Lasell also played John Wilkes Booth in a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone. He also held roles in two 1961 episodes of Wagon Train, and an episode of Hazel that same year. He appeared in a 1962 episode of Route 66, a 1964 episode of Flipper, and 1966 episodes of As the World Turns and Perry Mason. In 1972, he appeared in the television Mission: Impossible series, as well as an episode of Night Gallery and Mannix. He also showed up in an episode...

In 2019, The CW and Warner Brother Television announced that they were creating a new series based on the Classic, 1966 soap opera, Dark Shadows. Dark Shadows: Reincarnation, is the name of the new series.

Dark Shadows Spoilers – What Is This Reboot About?

Dark Shadows Reincarnation “will be a modern-day continuation of the strange, terrifying, and sexy saga of the Collins family of Collinsport, Maine — a mysterious, influential, publicity-shy group hiding a ghastly secret: For the past 400 years, they’ve lived under a curse that bedevils their blue blood with every imaginable supernatural creature and horror,”Dan Curtis created Dark Shadows which aired for six seasons, 1966 to 1971, that is close to 1250 episodes before the end.

The Pilot episode of Reincarnation was written by Mark B. Perry who was the executive producer with “will be a modern-day continuation of the strange, terrifying, and sexy saga of the Collins family of Collinsport, Maine — a mysterious,...

The Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival (Shiff) is set to return to the historic towns of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown, New York, from October 10 to 13, 2024. Nestled in the heart of America’s supernatural folklore, the festival promises an eclectic mix of premieres, tributes, and exclusive screenings, all designed to celebrate genre cinema in the birthplace of Washington Irving’s legendary tales.

This year’s Shiff boasts a line-up that will appeal to both classic cinema enthusiasts and fans of the supernatural. Among the highlights is a celebration of the 75th anniversary of Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. To mark this occasion, D23—The Official Disney Fan Club—will guide festival-goers through an enchanting event filled with rare behind-the-scenes footage, special guests, and surprises that aim to bring Disney nostalgia to life.

Adding to the festivities is a tribute to iconic director Tim Burton, with a 30th-anniversary...

In a surprise move, Warner Bros. has set an early October PVOD and digital release for the hit comedy-horror flick Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. A physical media release has also been set for November. More on this movie's digital and physical media release below.

As of Oct. 1, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is still performing really well at the box office since its debut in theaters on Sept. 6. In fact, it has become filmmaker Tim Burton's second highest-grossing movie at the domestic box office, surpassing his 1989 Batman, which made $251.4 million in total in North America.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Critics and viewers alike have enjoyed this long-awaited sequel, and it comes as no surprise, seeing as though it brought back some of the original cast members and crew, such as Burton, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O'Hara. It also brought on board breakout star Jenna Ortega. With an engaging plot and a talented cast, this...

Say his name three times and he'll appear ... in your living room. "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" is winding down in theaters, but you can still catch Tim Burton's apparent return to form at home beginning October 8, 2024. That's when the Michael Keaton-led sequel, with which /Film's own Jacob Hall declared that Burton "gets his mojo back," will make its way to digital platforms like Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV, where it'll be available to rent or purchase with plenty of extras.

The current pre-order price for a digital version of the movie appears to be $24.99 on both platforms mentioned above, with Amazon touting its version as the "Bonus X-Ray Edition" and specifying that it includes an Ultra HD format. Buy the movie digitally and you'll also get a bunch of goodies including a commentary from Burton, a feature on the stop-motion art of the movie, and intriguingly titled special extras like "Shrinkers,...

Well, that was fast. Warner Bros. has set a PVOD and digital release of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice for Oct. 8, 33 days after its theatrical release.

At the same time, last night the sequel became the filmmaker’s second highest grossing movie at the domestic box office with a running total of $251.435M inching out Burton’s 1989 Batman ($251.4M). The pic grossed $1.1M yesterday in its fourth week in what has been a great hold throughout September. Burton’s 2010 Alice in Wonderland remains his highest grossing movie ever both domestic ($334M) and worldwide ($1.03 billion). Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the filmmaker’s fourth highest grossing movie ever worldwide at $374.4M currently behind Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factor ($475M) and Batman ($412M).

The Michael Keaton, Jenna Ortega, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara ensemble will be available for 48-hour rental via PVOD on Oct. 8 and available for purchase or to rent on Amazon Prime Video,...

Tim Burton and Michael Keaton reunite for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and the long-awaited sequel is headed home. The film debuts for purchase and rental ahead of Halloween.

On October 8, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be available for Premium Digital Ownership at home and for 48-hour rental via PVOD on participating digital platforms where you purchase or rent movies, including Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Fandango at Home, and more.

On November 19, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be available to own on 4K Uhd, Blu-ray and DVD from online and physical retailers. It will also continue to be available to own in high definition and standard definition from participating digital retailers. On November 1, an American Sign Language (Asl) version of the film will also be available at digital retailers.

Premium Digital Ownership, 4K Uhd and Blu-ray contain the following special features:

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Commentary by director Tim Burton The Juice is Loose! The Making of...

Late-night horror series The Classic Ghosts has rarely been seen since airing on ABC’s Wide World of Mystery in 1973, but that’s about to change.

The UCLA Film & Television Archive has preserved all five installments, coming to Blu-ray on October 29 via Kino Lorber’s Kino Cult line. Watch the exclusive trailer below.

Produced by broadcast pioneer Jacqueline Babbin, The Classic Ghosts was celebrated upon its debut for being made by a predominantly female crew, including trailblazing television directors Gloria Monty (General Hospital) and Lela Swift (Studio One).

Shot on videotape in the style of a soap opera, with expressive and colorful production design, The Classic Ghosts has an immediacy and otherworldliness akin to Dark Shadows — not surprising since two of the directors (Swift and Henry Kaplan) directed hundreds of episodes of the classic horror TV series.

The two-disc set includes interviews with Mark Quigley (John H. Mitchell Television...

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Tim Burton has always been an outlier in Hollywood. He's a filmmaker with a distinct, peculiar aesthetic and set of interests, yet his movies have broad appeal and are remarkably consistent in the way they perform financially. Even Burton's weakest franchise films bear the sort of directorial hallmarks that are often missing from tentpoles in the 21st century. Indeed, say what you will against his "Dark Shadows," but only Burton could have enough pull to get a $150 million movie reboot of a cult '60s soap opera oddity green-lit in 2012 while also making it precisely the way he wanted. It's the same reason the critically-derided horror-comedy has found its share of defenders.

Be that as it may, having to deal with the relentless friction between creativity and commerce has taken its toll on Burton in the past. His 1996 sci-fi...

Tim Burton rose during a very peculiar time in popular culture. The terse, depressive adult dramas of the 1970s had given way to the ultra-slick, spectacle-heavy blockbusters of the 1980s as a new generation of adventure films entered the marketplace, helmed by precocious filmmakers who spent their youths in actual film schools. At the same time, the financial and cultural conservatism of the Reagan administration had amplified the voices of rebellious punkers and enterprising artistic weirdos who wanted nothing to do with the commercial world. The odd circumstances -- an increase of money paired with a general antiestablishment malaise -- were just right for anti-mainstream freaks to break into the public eye.

All of a sudden, filmmakers like David Lynch, Tobe Hooper, and Paul Verhoeven could make big hits, and Tim Burton could be embraced by the public at large. Burton, in particular, could not have risen to fame in any other epoch.

Tim Burton already has a follow-up movie to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in the works, though his next film now has a bigger challenge to succeed after the enthusiastic response to his 2024 horror-comedy. While Burton had already begun his exciting comeback with Wednesday season 1 on TV, Beetlejuice 2 is the gothic fantasy horror auteurs big cinematic return after the mixed reviews and box office disappointment of 2019s Dumbo. His sequel to the 1988 horror movie Beetlejuice officially proves that classic Burton is back, with Beetlejuice 2s stellar reviews and box office performance providing his biggest hit in over a decade.

Even before his hit 2024 movie was released in theaters, it was announced that Tim Burton was attached to direct the upcoming remake of 1958s Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. The classic sci-fi horror movie is right up Burtons alley, harking back to his dabbling in the genre with Mars Attacks! in 1996 and...

It’s been 15 years since audiences were introduced to Mystic Falls and its vampires, love triangles and teenage drama. And still, The Vampire Diaries holds a special place for many viewers.

Vampire Diaries premiered on The CW on Sept. 10, 2009, and ran for eight seasons,. Now, to celebrate the milestone anniversary, showrunner Julie Plec looks back on the series she created with Kevin Williamson and how it launched a supernatural franchise.

She recalls wanting to “tell a really emotional story that was sexy and romantic and scary and all the things,” while also creating “something that felt timeless, that could live on and continue to feel like anybody, any generation at any time can connect to it.”

Julie Plec

And to accomplish that, Plec and Williamson knew they had to build a solid team that could produce stories with “creative integrity and that we’re deeply emotional and highly entertaining.”

They also needed the perfect cast,...

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!

Though his absence was expected, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice revealed Charles Deetz to have died between the first and second movies, and his death has a connection to Tim Burtons real-life fears. Burton made it known prior to the sequel's release that Charles would be dead heading into its story, a choice already expected due to actor Jeffrey Jones' prior arrest and registration as a sex offender in 2002. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice's story reveals in a stop-motion sequence that Charles died when his plane crashed in the ocean and a shark bit him in half, with a stand-in playing his spirit in the Afterlife with an uncredited voice actor.

In honor of the sequel's long-awaited release, Entertainment Weekly interviewed Gough for a spoiler-filled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice interview. In looking at Charles' death, the co-writer revealed that it was directly inspired by one of Burtons greatest fears of seemingly surviving a plane crash,...

This article contains mild spoilers for "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice."

Ever since the first "Beetlejuice" escalated the obsession the ghostly Maitland couple had with Harry Belafonte to them trying to rid their home of the obnoxious Deetz family by making them do a possession lip sync dance number to "Banana Boat (Day-o)," it seemed like a given that a follow-up setpiece had to happen if "Beetlejuice" ever got a sequel. Of course, follow-ups to gags can be tricky, especially in comedy sequels. Some try to go bigger and wilder, such as the climactic news team battle in "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." Others try and undercut or subvert the expectation, like when Phoebe Cates' Kate starts delivering a monologue about some trauma that happened to her on Lincoln's birthday and is cut off in "Gremlins 2: The New Batch." Others still merely pick up where the bit left off in the first film,...

Michelle Pfeiffer plays the McU's Janet Van Dyne and, following the original Wasp's return from the Quantum Realm in Ant-Man and The Wasp, finally took centre stage in last year's Quantumania.

Of course, as we're sure you're all aware, Pfeiffer's first major superhero role was 1992's Batman Returns where she delivered an iconic take on Selina Kyle, a.k.a. Catwoman.

A third movie set in Tim Burton's gothic take on Gotham City never became a reality and neither did Batman Beyond (which was set to revisit Bruce Wayne and Selina's romance in the present day). Now, Pfeiffer has taken to Instagram to share a glimpse inside her original script for Batman Returns...when it was known simply as Batman II.

There are a few fun Easter Eggs in the pages the actor posted, including the fact Gotham City's Mayor referred to Batman as "The Caped Crusader" in this early draft.

Next month will be the start of spooky season and with it comes Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween! You can start planning what films and shows you want to watch as the schedule is now available! It includes perennial classics like the “Halloweentown” films, “Beetlejuice,” “Hocus Pocus,” “Hocus Pocus 2,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and more.

31 Nights of Halloween Schedule:

Week 1 – 31 Nights of Halloween

Tuesday, Oct. 1

1:00 p.m. Edt/Pdt – “Halloweentown”

3:00 p.m. Edt/Pdt – “The Haunted Mansion” (2003)

5:05 p.m. Edt/Pdt – “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”

6:45 p.m. Edt/Pdt – “Beetlejuice”

8:50 p.m. Edt/Pdt – “Hocus Pocus”

Wednesday, Oct. 2

1:00 p.m. Edt/Pdt – “Arachnophobia” – Freeform Premiere

3:30 p.m. Edt/Pdt – “Beetlejuice”

5:35 p.m. Edt/Pdt – “Casper” (1995)

8:00 p.m. Edt/Pdt – “Ghostbusters: Afterlife”

Thursday, Oct. 3

11:00 a.m. Edt/Pdt – “Ghostbusters: Afterlife”

1:55 p.m. Edt/Pdt – “Casper” (1995)

4:20 p.